[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)
On 07/13/2010 08:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazith9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Tamer Glad it worked. Investigate modules-rebuild as it keeps track of these things and does it for you pretty easily. Here's what's in my list: c2stable ~ # module-rebuild list ** Packages which I will emerge are: =x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 =x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2 =x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 =x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2 =x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0 =x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0 =x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware-11.0.1 =media-libs/mesa-7.8.1 All of the above are not kernel modules. Kernel updates don't affect them, only xorg-server updates do. =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.26 Only this is affected by kernel updates.
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)
On 07/13/2010 08:01 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Portage tells you to do exactly that after updating xorg-server. It might be a good idea to check the messages so that you can read whether you are required to do something after emerging/updating something. You can use elogv (pp-portage/elogv) for that.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 07/13/2010 08:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazith9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Tamer Glad it worked. Investigate modules-rebuild as it keeps track of these things and does it for you pretty easily. Here's what's in my list: c2stable ~ # module-rebuild list ** Packages which I will emerge are: =x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 =x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2 =x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 =x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2 =x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0 =x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0 =x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware-11.0.1 =media-libs/mesa-7.8.1 All of the above are not kernel modules. Kernel updates don't affect them, only xorg-server updates do. =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.26 Only this is affected by kernel updates. No disagreement on that, but frankly it doesn't matter to me. It works. Takes about 1 minute to rebuild these files. I don't care (as a user type) why I have to do it. I do it and my machine works. It covers kernel and xorg updates. That's OK with me. Or maybe you're just pointing this out to the OP? I suspect I might have failed with the same problem as the OP myself this morning had I used not it. There was an xorg-driver update that didn't update all the input devices in my make.conf file. (evdev specifically) This command did. Maybe I didn't need to rebuild evdev after an sorg-driver update but I suspect you'd agree it's safer if I do. Sometimes the tools take care of things that are just oversights. Matters not that I shouldn't have to do it. Matters more that the machine works. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/13/2010 08:01 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Portage tells you to do exactly that after updating xorg-server. It might be a good idea to check the messages so that you can read whether you are required to do something after emerging/updating something. You can use elogv (pp-portage/elogv) for that. And if you have a GUI installed, elogviewer is pretty nice too. I have both, just in case the GUI don't start. ;-) It happens. Dale :-) :-)
